Word: jacobus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, 53, of the Bank of England, member of the League of Nations Financial Committee since 1922; to be president of the Bank for International Settlements, succeeding Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip of Holland; in Basle, Switzerland...
...Leon Fraser's Dutch successor as president of the Bank for International Settlements, Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, 60, last week informed the World Bank's directors he would resign at the end of the fiscal year. Nominated for his job was another Dutchman, J. W. A. Beyen, vice president...
...Jove himself comes barging in his stride. --Jacobus Amundus...
...this new degree bears such a "very marked resemblance to Sam Mather's" of 1701, why completely destroy the effect at the very end? I don't propose that the President be requested to sign himself "Jacobus" if he doesn't want to, but wouldn't the dignity of the diploma be enhanced considerably by the benefit of at least the first name of the chief representative of the illustrious institutions that grants...
...stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth largest ever found...